- Join a team & culture that puts people first
- Flexibility and autonomy whilst championing Safety, Health & Wellbeing
- Professional development and career opportunities
Ready to make an impact?
We’ve reviewed and reshaped our Safety, Health & Wellbeing team, and have the exciting opportunity for talent to join our Safety, Health & Wellbeing Leadership team right here in Aotearoa. Reporting to the Head of Safety, Health & Wellbeing, the two new roles focus in on key areas where we have some great mahi ahead, and we are looking for superstars who are passionate to make a difference strategically and for our front line team, you need to be organised and passionate about people.
If you are keen to join our team for one of these roles the read on. Are you a champion and able to be accountable for leading the strategic and operational focus of our material (critical) risks, or are you more of an assurance, systems or love getting your teeth into specific programmes of work? The two roles we have available are:
- Safety, Health & Wellbeing Manager - Material Risk
- Safety, Health & Wellbeing Manager - Assurance, Systems & Programmes
About the Roles | Mō te Tūranga
If you are a material (critical) risk champion, you will be responsible for:
- Leading the strategic and operational focus of our material (critical) risks across the business, to support the supply chain, store operations and CDX business units
- Coach, mentor and innovate with us as we build maturity of our material risk controls in our ever changing and innovative operational environment
- Collaborate across our wider ecosystem of businesses, to ensure that lessons learnt can be taken onboard in finding pragmatic and practical controls that operationally will make a difference for our team, customers, contractors, communities and wider across our sector
- Help us use data & insights, root cause analysis & identifying corrective actions that will make a substantial difference to our supply chain & supermarket operations, including last mile eCom delivery.
- Development of strong internal and external working relationships with key stakeholders, including industry bodies, subject matter experts and regulators.
If you are more into assurance, systems & programmes, here is an alternate role to consider:
- Be accountable for leading the overall WWNZ governance, assurance (including auditing) and safety management systems
- Support, map and assist in the professional development of the SH&W team, including networking and building WWNZ SH&W team ‘brand’ awareness
- Work collaboratively to develop the plan to reduce musculoskeletal / manual handling and injury prevention across WWNZ
- Support the identification, research and execution of continuous improvement projects across health, safety and wellbeing.
- Develop strong internal and external working relationships with key stakeholders
- Innovation, continuous improvement and our people’s safety is at the core of all we do. Our people’s success is our business’s success and we strongly believe in empowering and developing our teams.
These roles are significant and key roles within our SH&W leadership team, so we are looking for special people that can lead, coach, mentor, challenge and help their stakeholders on the journey.
Our team is at the heart of our business, and keeping them safe and well is our number one priority. We’re a caring bunch, and we pride ourselves on a robust SH&W strategy that prioritises a focus on our critical risk controls, injury prevention as well as supporting and caring for our team and communities at the centre of everything we do.
About You | Mōu
To succeed in these roles you will need to be an individual with a strong health, safety and wellbeing background, appropriate qualifications and at least 10 years SH&W experience. Highly desirable is experience within the FMCG sector, retail trading environments, awareness of the ACC AEP requirements, and specifically transport / supply chain and / or chain of responsibility experience.
If you’re the sort of individual who strives to always do the right thing for customers, team, our communities, and our business then we ought to connect.
To be successful in this position, you will be able to present and deliver health, safety and wellbeing information to all levels within the business, have a demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and possess the experience of leading a team.
Working with Woolworths NZ | Me mahi tahi tatou ki Woolworths NZ
Our purpose is to make Kiwis' lives a little better every day.
We’re friendly, down-to-earth, and energetic - we work hard but we have a great time doing it, and we love what we do. There is plenty of scope for new ideas, lots of room for you to add value, and importantly, you’ll be working with a business that touches the lives of three million New Zealanders a week. We offer a diverse range of career opportunities across our ecosystem.
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